Results 301-320 of 6,255 for speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (23 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of international protection applications made to date in 2024, by month, in tabular form. [43515/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (23 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the average processing times for those seeking international protection in the State as of 18 October 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43516/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (23 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the average and median processing times for appeals of international protection applications as of 18 October 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43517/24]

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The question will arise in the coming weeks as to whether the Irish people and those who need housing can afford another few years of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. I am convinced they cannot. I am relieved that there is a viable alternative. I am passionate and committed to the vision Deputy Ó Broin has put forward on this because, for the first time in many years, it offers a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (22 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she accepts that on 2 December 2001, she wrote to the Privileges Committee as follows: ‘in rare and very limited circumstances, and only where agreed by the individual, some appeals involving a number of workers engaged by the same employers, may be determined by a sample of cases’. [42645/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (22 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 497. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection , if she accepts that on 5 October 2022 in reply to a Parliamentary Question from Deputy Kerrane, she wrote that her ‘Department is open to taking a ‘sample cases’ approach to determination of insurance classification, using the criteria set out in the Code, in cases involving multiple workers...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (22 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 498. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she accepts that on 2 October 2000, Secretary General Sullivan wrote to PAC Chairperson Jim Mitchell accepting and conceding that her Department was using a 'test case' to label all motorcycle, van and pushbike couriers/delivery drivers as self-employed by group and class. [42647/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (22 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she accepts that on 9 May 2018, the current Secretary General of her Department wrote to PAC Chairman, Deputy Fleming, accepting and conceding that her Department used precedential group and class decisions known as 'test cases' to determine the employment status of groups and classes of workers. [42648/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (22 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she accepts that in March 2019, Minister Doherty accepted and conceded in an interview with a journalist (details supplied) that her Department uses precedential group and class decision to determine the employment status of groups and classes of workers and that her Department is fully aware that this is not in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (22 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she accepts that the Oireachtas SW Committee Report (2021) recommends that it is the liability of her Department to rectify the misclassification of workers through the use of unlawful test cases. [42650/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (22 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 639. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 9 October 2024, to provide a breakdown of the €21.552 million allocation, outlining how much was allocated to local authority integration teams and how much was allocated to the community integration forums in Budget 2025. [43020/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (22 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 640. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 9 October 2024, how much of the €21.552 million allocated to local authority integration teams and the community integration forums in Budget 2025 is new money. [43021/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (22 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 728. To ask the Minister for Health if the medical cannabis access programme will be extended to patients with fibromyalgia. [42737/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Functions (16 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when An Garda Síochána expects to complete the transfer of certain immigration functions to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42070/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (10 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 72. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the strategy she has for Gaeltacht island communities [40664/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 71. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on her Department's plans to address dereliction and vacancy in rural towns and villages. [40661/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Library Services (10 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 66. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she agrees there is a need to provide capital funding for new library buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40761/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Library Services (10 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 91. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the efforts underway to increase library membership and participation; and to provide an update on membership numbers at local authority libraries, each year over the past five years. [40662/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons eligible for the carer's support grant by virtue of being in receipt of the carer's allowance, carer's benefit and domiciliary care allowance, respectively, in tabular form. [40423/24]